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Show TOOELE HIGH-JINKS. CAPERINCS OF A PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC DEMO-CRATIC POLITICIAN. How Mm Bourbon City Council Curries on the Work of Puhllo Improvement-The Improvement-The Tpayers are Celling Very Silk of Their Bargain. Fvrmi (hir Sp""i(tl forrfsi'inilenf. Tooele, Ih-c. 'js. In the, lust election the fnir l ily of Tooele went democratic. The event n cclehrulc.d with wlioopinj.', bon-tire.i, bon-tire.i, etc., and there was yreat rcjoichiff. The. dcmoiraU had ncooped all the city oflires nnd secured the seat in the legislature. Hut what changes have taken place. A month had hardly parsed when one of the great democratic patriot fell, and p-cal was the fall. Humors of Illicit intercourse, etc., etc., with one of the fair diu.isels of Tooele, whose condition had become interestlnj;, through the alteiitlon jrivou her by thi Bourbon Bour-bon champion were heard. Things became very Interesting; liberal offers of com promise were, made of a few dollars, a hand of cayuse horses, including a very promising slock station. But the Injured In-jured lady declined all overtures of compromise com-promise and made her troubles known to the ecclesiastical authorities. The conse-fiicnen conse-fiicnen was thai Ihe big democ rat married the girl and gave her Ills note for t"i()ll, pay. able in co-op. acrip, with the understanding that she ( the girl J would not oppose divorce proceedings to take place within one year frrm the time of agreement. All arrangements were thus mula agree, able, and after being subjeeted to txcom-iiiunicatlon txcom-iiiunicatlon from all ecclesiastical fellowship together with many words of Tcbuke and admonition by the church authorities, the newly made husband decamped and made, his way to the (rreat American desert, where tho gentle zephyr mixed with solicitude might have a better change to disinfect dis-infect his old clothes. And now that the moral atmosphere of Tooele is again purified he has returned. Now, a hit of history of democratic ad-mtrfistratioii ad-mtrfistratioii hy our newly .elected city council. coun-cil. Tbey went into ofllce with great prom-ises prom-ises of tilling up the extravagant tracks of the old council, and cutting off all expenses to nominal figures. About the first thing they did was to sell trtMK worth of stock in the city water works, as they imagined that the. interest on StiOOO would impoverish the city treasury to final bankruptcy. But when they got hold of the JlKHKt it began to burn the city council's pockets, so they picked a Quarrel with the connty officers, about a jail with iron cell, that had always been used hy both city and county jailors for the keeping of city and county prisoners so that they ( the city council) got offended, and finally got together and resolved lo buy some real estate, and build a new jail, with court yard and all necessary improved ma-( Winery for the safe keeping of city prisoners. prison-ers. Hero is the way they did it. The city marshal mar-shal offered for sale a lot belonging to his father-in-law, and the council bought It. And the city recorder offered to furnish all building material (and ho did not think tho council need bother anybody else, as tho re corder was interested in a store that had bought up too much frozen dried fruit that itcouklnot sell, and the recorder wanted the money for tho material so that his firm could meet pressing demands). The contract con-tract was given the recorder. .Next thera was something said about who should do the work and as the council is composed of jacks of all trades, they then and there agreed to do the work and build the jail and furnish everything needed themselves. The consequence is that our city fathers have been very busy in building jails and making appropriations for themselves them-selves for the last two mouths, but they got through the hard labors (tho appropriating of public funds for themselves alone I in time for Christmas, and it is expected that they will lie in time for the final distribution w hicu will take place soon after New Years. Tho above is simply a very brief history of the administration given the voters of Tooele hy the first democratic city administration. adminis-tration. The taxpayers are gettiug very sick of their bargain. If the. taxpayers can endure such rule until Uie next municipal el ectiou, tlit cry will be '-Kick the rascals out." |